Patriarch Bartholomew I, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, who is head of the Eastern Orthodox Churches, will meet with Pope Francis in May in Jerusalem. He said he looks forward to the meeting “with expectant joy and an abiding sense…

Sometimes there is good news. Uwe and Hannelore Romeike, a Christian family, fled to the United States from Germany in 2008 because they believed they should homeschool their children instead of subjecting them to the secular propaganda of German schools….

“Some of the nation’s most conservative states are propelling the same-sex marriage juggernaut back toward the Supreme Court.” Since the Supreme Court struck down the part of the Defense of Marriage Act that banned federal benefits to married same-sex couples,…

Much about Ukraine and its strategic peninsula, Crimea, is in the news these days. George Mason University reported in 2005 that historian researchers in Russia have fingered the Vatican as the cause of the Crimean war in the 1850s.  In…

Kenneth Copeland (KCM Ministries) is a Pentecostal, evangelical preacher who trained under Oral Roberts. Copeland, a tele-evangelist has been united with the Catholic Church in Sunday keeping. But it goes much beyond that. He has become a strong advocate of…

Claiming to uphold the U.S. Constitution, a federal judge has struck down Texas state constitution ban on same sex marriage, though leaving it in place pending a ruling by an appeals court. The amendment to the Texas constitution was approved…

“Animal rights come before religion,” said Denmark’s Minister for Agriculture and Food, Dan Jørgensen.  Jørgensen was defending Denmark’s new ban on the religious slaughter of animals for the production of kosher (Jewish) and halal (Islamic) meat. The change in the…

Nevada’s Attorney General, Catherine Cortez Masto, did a flip flop three days after strongly defending Nevada’s ban on same-sex marriage, saying that her arguments were “likely no longer tenable” in light of a San Francisco federal appeals court decision in…

Leaders of the American Jewish Institute met with Pope Francis in a private audience. The pope thanked them for maintaining “dialogue and fraternity” and said he hoped that Jewish and Christian communities would continue to engage in fruitful dialogue. He…

A major dispute over same-sex weddings has cause great disunity in the United Methodist Church. The row has pitted liberal clergy who have presided over gay weddings in defiance of church law against those who support traditional marriage. Methodist gay…

Travel disruptions continue in the wake of a “multi-pronged attack” of wind, rain and snow that for months has delayed trains and airlines, knocked out power and created treacherous road conditions.  The turbulent weather included hurricane force winds of up…

Virginia’s ban on same-sex marriage was struck down by a federal judge, but gay marriages cannot begin quite yet. The ruling blocked them until appeals are heard.   “Gay and lesbian individuals share the same capacity as heterosexual individuals to…